List of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad , president of Syria, during his presidency between 1971 and 2000.

1970s

1971

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Libya	Benghazi	17 April 1971	Signing of the agreement to establish the Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Syria.	[1]

1972

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Kuwait	Kuwait City	22 April 1972
Egypt	Mersa Matruh	19 June 1972	Attended a meeting of the Federation of Arab Republics	[2]
Soviet Union	Moscow	July 1972
Egypt	Cairo	9 July 1972		[3]

1973

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	7 February 1973	Meeting with president Anwar Sadat and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi	[4]
Egypt		April 1973		[5]
Soviet Union	Moscow	7 May 1973		[6]

1974

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Lebanon	Beirut	18 January 1974	Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh	[7]
Pakistan	Lahore	22–24 February 1974	Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit
Yugoslavia	Belgrade	15 August 1974	Meeting with President Josip Broz Tito	[8]
Romania	Bucharest	9 September 1974	Meeting with president Nicolae Ceaușescu
Korea DPR	Pyongyang	September 1974
Morocco	Rabat	30 October 1974	Attended the 7th Arab Summit Conference	[9]

1975

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Lebanon	Beirut	7 January 1975	Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh	[10]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	24 April 1975	Attended the Arab Summit Conference
Jordan	Amman	10 June 1975	Meeting with Hussein bin Talal
Czechoslovakia	Prague, Karlovy Vary	8–11 September 1975	Meeting with Gustáv Husák	[11]
Soviet Union	Moscow	10 October 1975		[12]
Iran	Tehran	December 1975
Jordan	Amman	9–10 December 1975	Meeting with Hussein bin Talal

1976

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
France	Paris	17–18 June 1976	Meeting with president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	[13]
Yugoslavia	Belgrade	June 1976
Romania	Bucharest	27 June 1976		[14]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	16–18 October 1976	Attended a six-party summit, which included the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Kuwait to discuss the situation in Lebanon	[15]
Jordan	Amman	6–7 December 1976	Meeting with Hussein bin Talal	[16]

1977

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Sudan	Khartoum	27 February 1977	Attended trilateral summit with Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat	[1]
Soviet Union	Moscow	19 April 1977	Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev	[17]
Switzerland	Geneva	9 May 1977	Meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter	[18]
Libya	Tripoli	2 December 1977	Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative	[19]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	9 December 1977	Meeting with Crown Prince Fahd	[20]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	12 December 1977	Meeting with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan	[21]

1978

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Soviet Union	Moscow	20–22 February 1978
India	New Delhi	18 April 1978	Meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi	[22]
West Germany	Bonn	12 September 1978
East Germany		1 October 1978
Iraq	Baghdad	25–27 October 1978	Working visit	[23]
Iraq	Baghdad	2 November 1978	Attended the Arab Summit Conference	[23]
Soviet Union	Moscow	6 October 1978
Hungary	Budapest	29 November 1978

1979

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Iraq	Baghdad	16–17 June 1979	Meeting with president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr	[24]
Algeria	Algiers	3 July 1979	Meeting with president Chadli Benjedid	[25]
Soviet Union	Moscow	15–18 October 1979

1980s

1980

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Yugoslavia	Belgrade	4 May 1980	Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
Libya	Tripoli		Held unification talks with Muammar Gaddafi
Soviet Union	Moscow	8–10 October 1980	Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev	[12]

1981

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Saudi Arabia	Mecca & Taif	25–29 January 1981	Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit

1982

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Saudi Arabia	Taif	5 July 1982	Meeting with King Fahd	[26]

1983

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
India	New Delhi	1983
Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	9 May 1983	Meeting with King Fahd	[27]

1985

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Soviet Union	Moscow	19 June 1985	Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev	[28]

1986

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Jordan	Amman	5 May 1986	Meeting with Hussein bin Talal	[29]
Greece	Athens	26–28 May 1986	State visit	[30]

1987

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Kuwait	Kuwait City	26–29 January 1987	Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit	[31]
Soviet Union	Moscow	27–29 April 1987	Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev	[32]
Bulgaria	Sofia	October 1987	Meeting with Todor Zhivkov	[33]

1990s

1990

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	14–16 July 1990	Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak	[34]
Egypt	Cairo	10 August 1990	Attended the Arab Summit Conference on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti crisis
Iran	Tehran	26 September 1990		[35]

1992

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Kuwait	Kuwait City	20 April 1992	Meeting with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah	[36]

1994

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	4–5 April 1994	Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak	[37]

1997

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Iran	Tehran	1 August 1997	State visit
Iran	Tehran	9–11 December 1997	Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit	[38]

1998

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
France	Paris	18 July 1998	Meeting with president Jacques Chirac	[39]

1999

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Jordan	Amman	February	Attended the funeral of Hussein bin Talal	[40]
Russia	Moscow	7 July 1999	Meeting with president Boris Yeltsin	[41]

2000s

2000

Country	Location	Date	Purpose	Ref.
Switzerland	Geneva	26 March 2000	Meeting with US president Bill Clinton	[42]

See also

• List of international presidential trips made by Bashar al-Assad
• Presidency of Hafez al-Assad
• Foreign relations of Syria

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